Anxiety and PMO

Hello everyone,

So I have been looking a lot more internally since the start of this whole Nofap thing. Does anxiety and a heightened level of stress and overthinking result from excessive PMO?

I have always been an anxious mess, but since my first encounter with PIED which was about 2 and a half years ago, my stress and anxiety has skyrocketed. I pretty much lost all confidence in myself and spent my first two years out of my parents house in university worried about the dumbest things.

Will it go away? I have finally started taking this community more seriously and feel my mindset is in a much better place than even a month ago. I have relapsed about 6 times total this month, and 2 of those involved pornography. That is a huge improvement from the 3-4 times I spent watching porn on a daily basis. I am going for a long streak now, and am motivated a lot by this girl I am really into. I am also motivated by my goals to finish school (this is my last semester), to move up in the position I have at my work, to develop my hobbies, and to be consistent with my fitness. I feel like I am doing a great job and will keep going until I defeat this habit and mindset.

What do you think? Is this journey going to lower my stress and anxiety? My tendency to overthink everything? I hope so, this is getting overwhelming. I do not want to live the rest of my life like this.

(it is important to note that I am a whole lot better than I was a few years ago, and even just one month ago. I guess this answers my own question, but I would like to hear what anyone has to offer.)